Combined cane and whip.



PATBNTED 00T. .13, 1903.`f

NQ. 741,219. i.

HQ HV. BRANDBS. COMBINED GANE AND WHIP.

APPL-IGATION FILED FEB. 5. 1903.

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COMBINED CANE ANID WHIP.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters, Patent No. 741,219, dated October 13, 1903.

Application iiled February 5, 1903- Serial No. 142,050. (No model.)

`vide a structure having parts which can be eompactly arranged or secured together and when in the former relation will not rattle or have independent movements.

lt is also the object to provide a structure in which the Whip can be made flexible for a comparatively great part of its length and in which the tip can be readily replaced by a new one should it become Worn, injured, or broken. 1

The preferred form of construction is described in the followingspeciiication and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device when in the form of a cane. Fig. 2 is a similar View when constructed to constitute a Whip. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional View, on an enlarged scale, through the cane. Fig. l is a similar view through the Whip, parts unnecessary to an understanding of the invention being broken away; and Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view through the coupling of the tip and stock sections.

Similar reference-numerals indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings. As before stated, the device can be formed into either of two memberse-a cane 10 or a whip 11. The cane consists of two tapering tubular sections 12 and 13, detachably se! cured together by means of a screw-threaded joint 14:. The upper or handle section 12 is provided with a removable cap 15, which may be of any form desired. The lower section is 'so constructed that it may be placed Within the socket or boreI of the upper section and held therein bythe cap 15, as will be seen by reference to Fig. 4. Then the parts are thus fastened together.

whip, the remainder of said whip comprising y a stock-section 1S and a tip-section 19, which are preferably constructed of iiexible material. The stock-section 18 is provided at its larger end with an internally-threaded ferrule or sleeve 20, in which the smaller end of the handle-section 12 may be screwed, as shown in Fig. l. The smaller end of said stock-section is also provided with a sleeve 21, suitably fastened thereto and having a threaded bore to receive the coupling 22, that is fastened to the other end of the tip-section 19. This coupling 22, as shown particularly in Fig. 5, is in the form of a sleeve Vinternally and externally threaded in opposite directions, the external threads being arranged to engage the internal threads of the sleeve 21, While the tip is fastened to said sleeve by being screwed into the same.

lVhen the structure is employed as a cane, the whip-sections 1S and 19 are disassociated and the sections 12 and 13 of said cane are The tip-section is then placed Within the cane and is long enough to extend through both sections of said cane, as shown in Fig. 3. The stock-section 18 is then placed Within the cane with its larger end at the upper end thereof. The buffer-plug may be employed with this stock-section,and when inserted in the larger end thereof it will serve to hold the same against movement, so that no rattling thereof can occur. Vhen the device is to be used as a whip, the sections 18 and 19 thereof are secured together, the section 13 of the cane is unfastened from the section 12 and placed Within the same, and the Whip-sections are then secured to the handle-section 12. It will be evident that these parts can be readily and cheaply manufactured and are compactly foldable when not in use. Both the cane and the Whip are made of sections, and this `is an important feature, for the reason that the handle-section of the Whip can be comparatively short,

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and consequently the flexible portion made up of two sections can be comparatively long. The specific construction of conplin g employed between the stock-section and the tipsection '19 of the whip is also advantageous, for should the tip become broken7 worn, or injured it may be easily removed by unscrewing it and replaced by a new one, which can be threaded into the ferrule 22.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, operation7 and many advantages of the herein described invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art without further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A cane comprising tubular sections detachably secured together, one of said sections being constructed to contain the othery section when detached, in combination with a whip made up of other detachable flexible sections constructed to be housed Within the cane'or placed together and attached to the containing-section of saidcane.

2. A cane comprising tubular tapering sections detachably connected, the lower section being constructed to fit within the upper section when detached, in combination with a plurality of detachable and flexible whip-sections which when detached can be placed side by side within the cane or can be secured together' and attached to the upper section of the cane.

of said common section in like manner being constructed to be inclosedby a portion of the whip accordingly as either is constructed for use.

4. A cane and whip, each composed of a plurality of sections, the handle-section be- Yone to the other and to the said containingsection of the cane.

6. A combination article of the character described including a socketed member, a section arranged in the socket and of less diameter than the same, said section having a seat in its end, and a compressible bufferplug fitted in the seat and having an outstanding iiange that bears against the walls of the socket.

7. In a sectional structure of the class described, the combination withawhip-section having a sleeve at one end provided with an internal screw-thread, of a coupling-ferrule threaded externally .and internally in opposite directions and being arranged to screw into the sleeve, and a tip-section carrying said ferrule and screwed into the same.

ln testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own l have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses I-IERLWIAN H. BRANDES.

Vitnesses:

CHAs. I. BUCKMAN, B. M. POWELL. 

